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All You Need to Know About Android Studio 1.3

This year at the Google I/O Android released the Android Studio 1.3, the biggest feature release for the year. For developers, this will offer a whole new avenue of features that will help them create apps offering incredible experience. It includes a whole new memory profiler, testing support as well as editing and debugging support specifically for C++. It will be interesting to pay a visit to the new features that come with Android Studio 1.3

Improved Performance & Testing Tools

Android Studio 1.3 comes with a whole new range of performance and testing tools that will offer you variety of ways to work through the contents of your code, and give out an enhanced version of your app.

Android Memory Viewer

You can easily capture and analyze the memory snapshots in the Android HPROF format with this new Android Studio

Allocation Tracker

Earlier, you used to get a tabular representation of the app memory allocations. But, with this new studio version, you will also get a pictorial representation of the same, thus giving you a better idea and understanding.

Tests within Modules for APK

With this new feature release, you get more flexibility. You can now conduct app testing while placing the code tests in separate modules, and use the new test plugin to perform the test. While you are at it, you don’t need the Gradle plugin 1.3 to perform testing of your app projects

Code and SDK Management

Managing your code as well as Android SDK becomes easier with the release of this new feature Android Studio 1.3

Inline Code Annotations

There is a new app permissions model introduced with this feature release. There is an inline code annotation support that helps manage this new model. Here’s an example of how this permissions model works

SDK Auto Update & SDK Manager

Android Studio offers to manage the Android SDK updates. The new feature release will prompt whenever there is a new SDK or tool related update. You have the option of setting the preferences on the new Android SDK manager.

C++ Support

The Android Studio 1.3 stable release also includes C++ editor and debugger support. This will help support the complex projects, and make it easily configurable.
If you are all set to update to Android Studio, you don’t need to change a thing about your Android app projects. You get all the latest features without losing control on the build tools and app dependency versions that you used while developing your Android app.
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